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by Twirrim 2y ago
They're saying they stay up to date with Rust, because it's the most likely to do away with C++ (their job), making sure they have relevant skills for if that happens.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
The current CoC came out from a particularly bad incident with Linus, which he signed off on at the same time as he went into therapy and started working on himself. There is a remarkable difference in the before and after. > I'm n
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Oracle, who publish this tool, though I have nothing to do with the org or engineers that created it I've been running this for a while on my laptop. So far yet to see any particular weirdness, but also I don&#x
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> Splitting the file doesn’t need to be part of the file format itself. I could split a file into N parts, then concatenate the parts together at a later time, regardless of what is actually in the file. I'm inclined to agree with y
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Which is all stuff they could fix, if they'd be willing to, with a major version bump. They'd need a killer feature to encourage that migration though.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Not that long ago Facebook was accidentally leaking information through their self hosted runners, through a very common mistake people make. https://johnstawinski.com/2024/01/11/playing-with-fire-how-w... Th
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by Twirrim 2y ago
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/testers-needed-manjaro-data-dono... Doesn't seem that sensitive?
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by Twirrim 2y ago
The last year-ish on Android has been a steady progression of UX bug after UX bug. It's bizarre to the point of convincing me that those with decision making authority clearly do not use their own app.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Hack really gave PHP/Zend the kick up the arse that it seemed to need.
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> We work very closely with Google DeepMind to adapt Gemini models for Google-scale coding and other Software Engineering usecases. Considering how terrible and frequently broken the code that the public facing Gemini produces, I'll
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> when one person took down S3 with a manual command overriding the safeguards It didn't override safeguards, but they sure wanted you to think that something unusual was done as part of the incident. What they executed was a stand
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C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte(open-std.org)
288 points by Twirrim 2y ago|348 comments
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Sirius were obnoxious when I didn't convert from free to paid, on a service I wasn't using. The number of times I got phone calls and emails from them ended up with me repeating to them that their behaviour was guaranteeing I wou
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I've been surprised by the lack of polish in Golang for Arm, given all major clouds have server class, high performance, Arm processors, and Google even has their own. There's stuff on their backlog that is still unaddressed aro
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I don't know that I'd gauge anything by popularity with the HN crowd. It's also a diverse group. I'm closing in on a hundred problems solved, in a not very completion-ist fashion (I've got a whole bunch of skips
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by Twirrim 2y ago
They're not on AWS. They use on-prem and are migrating to Google and Oracle clouds. https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnewman/2023/02/21/uber-go...
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by Twirrim 2y ago
No disagreements there, but I was just correcting misinformation in the previous post
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> or pay Microsoft to host a "server" for you and like 8 other people as long as you obey the microsoft guidelines and drink enough verification cans. Or you can just run your own dedicated bedrock edition server, no need to pa
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I was experimenting about 18 months ago with FUSE in front of an HTTPS URL, essentially a large file I wanted to be able to random read as if it was local, without downloading it first. One of the things I ran in to that made it painful, wa
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by Twirrim 2y ago
But that's where the really fun and complicated problems are. The ones that really make you stop and think, and not just think, but be creative. 95% of the work is still the same "treading in well trod paths", same old same
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Which is run by... who? Debian? AWS? I know from personal experience that Canonical choose to run mirrors for some clouds, on those clouds, for example.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Wow, that's quite some chip on your shoulder. You're managing to project things on to my post that I didn't say, at all. Literally all I said was I thought they were large and goofy looking. I didn't say anything abo
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I know it's a prototype, but yikes those are large and goofy looking. Reminds me of the old 80's NHS glasses in the UK (which you could get for free if you couldn't afford otherwise). Or for those of you old enough, Brains fr
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20 Years of JRuby(youtube.com)
2 points by Twirrim 2y ago|0 comments
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by Twirrim 2y ago
They don't desperately want you to run IPv6. They're not doing anything to incentivise it in any way. They just deployed it because that's the direction the tech world is moving, and there was increasing IPv6 presence in end
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by Twirrim 2y ago
There's some serious academic critique of the Swiss Cheese model, too. That said, I rather like it. It's straightforward to explain to people, they very quickly "get" it, and it gets them thinking along the right lines.
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by Twirrim 2y ago
Amazon culture was still really rather root cause oriented when I left. The COE process they followed to do post-incident analysis was flawed and based on discredited approaches like the "5 whys". I don't know if it has cha
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by Twirrim 2y ago
> line management was unable or unwilling to invest in fixing root causes of operational issues. Sorry for an obligatory: there is no such thing as a root cause. That said, that matches my general experience too (I left about 9 years ag
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That's fair. The LTO capacity was already still significantly larger than archive disc at any stage in archive disc's life cycle. Both Sony and Panasonic completely failed to demonstrate actual value from the format. Smaller cap
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by Twirrim 2y ago
I use jupyter notebooks at work, not so much for academic stuff, but often to help build and show a narrative to folks, including executives (where I have any even remotely technical leadership). It's great for narrative stuff, especi

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